Huron
a city of South Dakota, the county seat of Beadle co. It is on the Chicago and Northwestern and the Great Northern railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural and stock-
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These 16 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Huron, Huron, Huronian Rocks.
Huron
LAKE raising region and is the division headquarters of the Northwestern railroad. It has flour mills, machine shops, grain elevators, and other industries. It is the seat of Huron College and has a high and public buildings. Pop school . (1910) 5,791; (1920) 8,302.
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Huron, Lake
Lake, one of the Great Lakes . It lies between Michigan and Ontario. It receives the waters of Lakes Superior and Michigan and discharges them through the Detroit River into Lake Erie. At an early day the water of this lake was discharged by an outlet farther to the eastward. Lake Huron, with Saginaw Bay on the west and Georgian Bay on the east, has a total area of about 22,322 square miles. Its surface is 581 feet above the level of the sea. It lies twenty-one feet below the level of Lake Superior. The greatest depth is about 750 feet.
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Huronian Rocks
the name given by Sir William Logan to a series of strata lying in the vicinity of Lake Huron. They consist chiefly of quartzite with great of greenish chloritic schist, sometimes containing pebbles derived from the Laurentian rocks. The Huronian rocks are about 18,000 feet thick.
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Hurons
a once powerful tribe of American Indians, belonging to the Huron-Iroquois family. In the early part of the 17th century the Hurons numbered about 30,000 persons, living in 25 villages within a small territory near Georgian Bay. By the end of the century the tribe had been nearly destroyed by the Iroquois, famine, and disease; and in 1693 the few survivors were removed by the French to Jeune Lorette, near Quebec. Here 200 or 300 descendants still live.
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Hurst
JOHN FLETCHER, an American Methodist clergyman; born near Salem, Md., Aug. 17, 1834. He studied theology in Halle and Heidelberg, Germany, and became bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1880, and chancellor of the American University in 1891. He wrote: "Literature of Theology"; "History of Rationalism"; "Martyrs to the Tract Cause"; "Life and Literature in the Fatherland"; "Outline of Church History"; "Bibliotheca Theologica"; "; "Short History of the Christian Church"; "Indika"; "History of the Christian Church" (1897); etc. He died in Washington, May 4, 1903.
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Hurst (FANNIE an American writer born)
FANNIE, an American writer; born in St. Louis, in 1889. She graduated from Washington University studies at Columbia. She made a special study of the stage and shop girl and other women workers, and her stories of life in these circles won her quick and wide reputation. Her published writings include: "Just Around the Corner" (1914); "Gaslight Sonatas" (1916). She also wrote several plays, including "The Land of the Free" (1917); "The Good Provider" (1917). She contributed much to magazines.
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Hurt
or HEURT, in heraldry, an azure or blue rondle; supposed by some to represent a hurt or wound, by others the hurtle-berry, whence the name is derived.
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Husbandry
PATRONS OF, a combination, society, or association of farmhe promotion of the interests of agriculture, by abolishing the restraints and burdens imposed on it by railway and other companies, and by getting rid of the systems of middlemen or agents between the producer and consumer. It was founded just after the Civil War, reputedly by O. H. Kelley, of Boston, Mass., and was especially designed to redress the grievances the in the West. The popular name of its members is Grangers.
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Huso
Acipenser huso, the Beluga or isinglass sturgeon. It is sometimes 12 or 15 feet long, and weighs 1,200 pounds. One mentioned by Cuvier reached 3,000 pounds. It inhabits the great rivers falling into the Black and Caspian seas. The best isinglass is made from its airbladder.
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Hussain Ibn Ali
King of the Hedjaz, and a lineal descendant of the Prophet. Before the outbreak of the European War, while Arabia, from which has arisen the new kingdom, was still a Turkish dependency. Hussain ibn Ali was Grand Sherif and Emir of Mecca. In June, 1916, he proclaimed himself in active alliance with the Allies, and declared the Hedjaz an independent kingdom. The Allies quickly recognized his claim, for his open participation in the war against Turkey made the proclamation of a jehad, or holy war, impossible. See HEDJAZ; TURKEY.
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Hussein Kemal Pasha
Prince, Sultan of Egypt, under the British protectorate. Born about 1850, he was educated in Paris, being intimate with the family of Napoleon III. Leaving France in 1870, he held the positions of Inspector of Upper and Lower Egypt, Minister of Public Instruction, of Public Works, of the Interior, of War and Finance. His nephew, Abbas Hilmi, sided with Turkey in the European War and was deposed as Khedive by the British, who replaced him with Hussein Kemal, giving the latter the title of Sultan. He succeeded to the position in December, 1914.
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Hussite
a follower of John Huss.
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Hustab
one of the idols of the ancient Ninevites. HUSTINGS. (1) A name given to a court formerly held in many cities of England, as York, Winchester, Lincoln, but especially applied to the county court of the City of London held before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriff's. (2) The platform from which candidates for seats in Parliament addressed the constituency on their nomination, previous to the Ballot Act of 1872.
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Hutcheson
FRANCIS, a Scotch educator and philosopher; born in Drumalig, Ulster, Ireland, Aug. 8, 1694. For many years a public teacher in Glasgow, he became in 1729 Professor of Moral Philosophy at the university in that city. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern philosophy in Scotland. He was the author of: "Inquiry Into the Original Origina of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue" (1720); "Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections" (1728); "System of Moral Philosophy" (1755). He died in Glasgow, Scotland, about 1746.
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Hutchins
HARRY BURNS, an American educator; born in Lisbon, N. H., in 1847. He gr graduated University of Michigan in 1871. He was instructor and assistant professor of history and professor of law in University of Michigan from 1872 to 1887. From 1887 to 1894 he was professor of law in Cornell University, and from 1895 to 1909 was professor of law and dean of the Department of Law at the University of Michigan. He was acting president of that institution in 1897-1898, and again from 1909 to 1910. He was consulting editor of "American and English Encyclopedia of Law and Procedure," and wrote the biography of Thomas M. Cooley. He contributed much to legal and other periodicals.
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